Old Edelbrock Vs New: They Are Different

I am showing you the difference between the new and old version of the Edelbrock Victor Junior intake. 

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[cuttnhorse]

Back in the late 70’s and 80’s I ran a Victor Jr, on a 355, and a 1966 327 cubic inch. It was a old school 47 ford pickup with fender well headers. Turbo 400, 4.88 gears. Old school ladder bar. For back in the day, it would scream! Made a lot of boys mad with their big blocks! Had comp cam 292 duration cam, 492 heads, that had been worked on for round track motor 377. I’m older now and recovering from renal cancer, chemotherapy etc. Don’t know about all the new electronics today, but we had fun! Ronnie East Tennessee

[sleeeper]

I purchased a new vic jr for a 383 I'm building and after I watched this I looked at some old manifolds I had and I have one of these same old vic jr manifolds. It has a date on bottom from 1991. Sending new one back and porting this old baby to match a 1206. Going on a 11.1 383 with solid roller and promaxx 215 project x. Shooting for 600hp on 93

[wizerulz]

Eric,

You should contact Ed McCandless ( the veteran Mopar pro stock driver/champion engine builder)

The Chevy Victor Jr was copied from a Mopar W2 intake Herb developed and tested back in the Mid 70’s

The Chevy and Mopar Victor Jrs are almost identical internally.

Herb even mentions it on his YouTube biography.

Both Herb and his son Herb Jr are very cool people very friendly and knowledgeable.

I hope you reach out to him

I run a self ported Victor Jr on my 414 stroker 340

[MrScoopage]

excited to see the results i have the older jr on my car currently nice intake

[garyhosier]

I’m excited too! Running a Vic Jr on 496. Builder has it on dyno now. 620 at 5800 and valves started to float. He’s working that. We debated whether to use Vic Jr or Dominator. I know what you are testing has nothing similar to what I have but Edelbrock impresses me. Fingers crossed.

[jasonstormoen]

That is an awesome deal with your son. You sound like me with my son. I'm your age but my son is a young adult now, but I remember being a proud dad. I still have my first car, and I can't imagine selling it. I got my first car which is an 88 Monte SS in 1993. My grandfather helped me get it because I worked for him and he helped raise me, but anyway cool store brought back memories. He is off to a good start with nice tubular control arms, cage, coilovers, and the engine it'll hook and go once the suspension and engine are dialed in.

[rickwent]

I personally love those Novas I've had several '77s and I am looking for another

[tomcumbey]

Comparing old vs new will be very interesting. Still can’t believe the Vic Jr is the HP winner on a 600 hp engine!

[JohnEverson-vw]

Got an old victor jr matched the super sucker not done the port matching yet but soon great content mr 👏

[leftyo]

the vic jr has never been a turd. it is always a decent choice. it may not be the best in every engine, but it will do just fine. 425ho for a high school kid that just got his license....odds are good he wont have a license long.

[ldnwholesale]

Having used various Victors on a road race car I used a original Victor on fuellies, then on Dart2s. Used a Bowtie Victor later on those which was better. Then went to Victor 23deg race heads and a 2925, , an entirely different engine with exactly the same bottom end.
Initially I had used a 1" open spacer, then a 2" which was better. This on the chassis dyno. I also tried a 4 hole 2" spacer which hurt the engine, above about 5000 it went flat. This was at the track, not on the dyno. I had heard the b/s about 4 hole being magic etc. It was like pulling the choke half on. This on a 12-1 358 Chev.
And that is where you should be for a dyno mule. Most of the world has a 6 litre [366] limit. Only drag racing uses larger. And speedway garden sheds!!

[reltub]

I've used Robertson tires several times.
Very nice people

[GaryWhipple-qw]

Good ole intake Glad to see you're taking my advice on the schoenfield header 😊

[Carl_Jr]

I hope that new VJ intake does well. I just bought one and installed it on my 71 Camaro with the Atomic 2 setup, and chose that intake because of your tests. Granted I'm not making nearly that much HP (probably closer to 450) but now I got my fingers and my toes crossed that it'll do at least as well as, or close to, if not better than the older one. 🤞

[anthonysilva]

I wish I still had my old Edelbrock Scorpion to send you to test. I forgot which part of the number it was, but the RPM rage was 4500-8000 according to Google. It was ported by Lynn Morris back in the mid 90s.

[jamesdalton]

I still have my Edelbrock Scorpion intake i bought used in 1987. 😎🏁

[mulletmechanics]

Marketplace buddy. They’re all the same on the nova. 69-79 i believe will work.

[chevyrc]

That's pretty cool I can't wait to see the testing

[michaeldeakin]

I've got a Blueprint 396, with msd dist and double roller timing set. Blueprints dyno sheet read 511hp at 5800 517 torque at 4300 at 16 initial 35 full mech, which I thought was maybe optimistic, so I had it dyno'd again and with 22 initial and 37 full mech it made 465 hp at 5400 and 503 torque at 4000.At 5500 it dropped 2 hp, so they didn't bother taking it higher. I am thinking of swapping the blueprint dual plane for a Vic Jr, I thought it might make, maybe another 15-20 hp at maybe 5800 but that is purely a guess, I know it will lose torque down low but the car is probably not more than 3000 # with me in it and has a 4000 converter and 4.10 gears so it might be OK.

[reltub]

A while back you showed us a head that broke out the divider between the intake and exhaust ports.
When you have time, I would like to see a test of this head. Seems like I remember you said it ran better and didn't carbon up as bad. Just checking with you. Thank you for all of your videos with all the content